Quotes About Ethics

Surely you must understand that the means are no less important than the ends. A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.

You were directly responsible for the deaths of four stormtroopers and thirty-two Imperial army troops, Thrawn continued. Also for the destruction of two Chariot command speeders and their crews. I am not the Lord Darth Vader, Ferrier -- I do not spend my men recklessly. Nor do I take their deaths lightly.

People who use dirty methods to hurt others... will be destroyed with methods that are even dirtier than theirs!! That's what I call justice!! Not to mention... journalism! - Wolfgangina Lalla Getto

Don't try to be a good guy. It doesn't matter who owes who. From the instant they enter into a war both sides are evil.

To err is human. To kill is evil.

Freedom isn't morally neutral; the emancipation if offers is a means, not an end in itself.

In short, economic docetism is the use of economics to abbreviate our living of our full humanity, in all its complexity, richness, and ambiguity. This often occurs today through the denial that the body is essential to human flourishing, and such a presumption that the sufferings and pleasures of some bodies (such as Bangladeshi women) are less important than others (such as American middle-class consumers).

One of his first acts was to challenge the established way of doing business by proposing that the legislators lose part of their salary, and pay a fine, if they didn't get the budget prepared on time. His

Immanuel Kant's "categorical imperative" says that individual actions are to be judged according to whether we would be pleased if everyone in society took the same action.

A conscience is the price of morality, and morality is the price of civilization.

The Good of the People was a laudable enough goal, but in denying a man's soul, an enduring part of his being, Marxism stripped away the foundation of human dignity and individual value. It also cast aside the objective measure of justice and ethics which, he decided, was the principal legacy of religion to civilized life.

Politicians are more concerned with "issues" than "principles," but talked as though the two nouns had the same meaning.

The media could not be policed from without and had to be policed from within.

We sink ships and try to pretend that they're just ships—things without people in them. It's dishonest, but we do it anyway.

Ideas are important. Principles are important. Words are important. Your word is the most important of all. Your word is who you are.

Either people were trustworthy or they were not.

I'm tired of all this. What ever happened to honesty, Arnie? What ever happened to telling the goddamned truth? It's all a fucking game here, and the object of the game isn't to do the right thing, the object of the game is to stay here. It's not supposed to be that way!

Reporters called down every other profession—medicine, law, politics—for failing to meet a level of professional responsibility which they would allow no one to enforce on themselves, and which they themselves would too rarely enforce on their own. Do as I say, not as I do was something you couldn't say to a six-year-old, but it had become a ready cant for grown-ups. And if it got any worse, then what?

Horner also, to quote John Paul Jones, has something a professional officer must have: "the nicest sense of personal honor." Right and wrong are identifiable in Chuck's universe, and separate. In a community where a man's word is his life, Chuck Horner's word is found in gold lettering on an adamantine wall of granite.

Cheating was a concept both foreign and integral to the fighting of wars.

The poetics of politics had to be observed.

Morality in his country had been replaced by what was politically correct or incorrect.

no man who could rationalize the death of a child could truly be called a man at all

obligations.